Making the desktop environment use all of the possible features would
probably be a matter of rewriting many individual apps (file managers, media
players, etc), something I'm really not very interested in doing. A desktop
and window manager (see videos above) would be much more interesting for me
I hadn't actually seen uTouch before, looks interesting. However I think the
difference is that (for now) it seems to be an adaption to use some
multitouch features on a standard gnome/unity/whatever desktop.
What I'm thinking about is a different UI designed around multitouch,
something like this
I have set myself a rather ambitious project to start this summer, and would
like to ask some questions before I get started.
The aim is to write a compositor/window manager that will work well with
multitouch input (a friend of mine is taking care of the hardware setup, the
plan is optical recogni